Hon Martha Wangari

All parliamentary appearances

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• 13 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: time. The limitation on the debate for three days is important so that we can dispose of the issues that are in the Budget and Appropriations Committee (BAC). view
• 13 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I second. view
• 18 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also want to join in supporting this nomination. It is quite a timely one. In fact, I was discussing with Hon. Rasso here and we were saying, maybe, the Committee members would have even signed the Report. It looks hurriedly done. It does not have signatures of the people who supported so that we can tell exactly who did what. Anyway, the credentials and adherence to the law look okay. But, I will not go to that because they interrogated it. I will go to what is likely to face Mbarak when and ... view
• 18 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: recover? We are talking of billions of dollars stashed in safe havens in New Jersey and elsewhere outside this country. We have even signed, as a Government, the plan to repatriate that money. He needs to know that we need to see the output if and when he is approved. I support. view
• 21 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. From the outset, I support the Bill. A Private Member’s Bill is never an easy thing to do. I know Hon. Njagagua has worked thoroughly on this Bill. How it comes to the Floor of the House is another thing. Now that it is here, it is not a new issue to me. We dealt with it in the Senate in the 11th Parliament. I was the Vice-Chair of the Labour Committee and we went through the motions that actually had approved the Bill for publication then. It was tabled in the House and, of ... view
• 21 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: that the transition is clear, the members’ benefits are protected and none of them will be lost in the process. The Attorney-General, as the legal advisor to the Government, issued an advisory in 2017. The advisory read that the LAPTRUST umbrella retirement Fund; the County Pension Fund, is the existing pension scheme for officers and staff of the defunct local governments as envisaged under Section 132 of the County Governments Act. There has not been a contrary advisory sought from the Attorney-General to negate this fact. The advisory goes ahead to say that it is important that LAPTRUST is anchored ... view
• 21 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: The first entity to be consulted is the Council of Governors (CoG) because they are the ones who are supposed to be benefiting from this pension scheme. Indeed, the CoG submitted a memorandum in support of the Bill that time, as it is right now. They issued a circular dated 19th September 2014 which we scrutinised. If you look at the Bill right now, at Schedule 3, you will see the sponsoring agencies. That time, county governments were about 43. Right now, I can see that almost every county government agrees and is a sponsor of this Bill. The associated ... view
• 21 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: that the current pension schemes do not take care of their interests as Muslims and their faith. To protect their interest, this Bill has a whole section on it and a team has been incorporated to go through it and make sure that it is sharia compliant. That is a plus to this Bill. The underlying aim is that we need to enact this law as quickly as possible. More importantly, let us separate the schemes to have the executive separate from the assemblies so as to mirror what there is in the national Government for the Legislature and for ... view
• 20 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I, of course, rise to support this Bill. At the outset, I would like to clarify one thing. I know we have had talks of referendum. I have heard it from the MP for Kangema but we cannot talk of a referendum if we have not implemented the Constitution. There are things in this Constitution that were not very popular. I would tell you because I have heard Members speak about having Cabinet Secretaries come from this House but we do not do that. We go with what it is in the Constitution until we are ... view
• 20 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, we talk of so many women in this House. I want to clarify that out of 290, we are only 23 elected from the single member constituencies. What does that mean? It means that we are a mere seven per cent. We are still very far to go. We have debated this rule even in the last Parliament. We were very close. In fact, I think we were short of 18 votes only in the 11th Parliament. We are here again. We owe it not just to ourselves or women but to this country and the fidelity of ... view